Outline

SACCPS/CEAPS held its annual conference on 12-13 February 2018 at the University of the Free State, South Africa. The conference was jointly hosted by the Department of Political Studies and Governance and the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State and the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University. As usual, it focused on South Africa, southern Africa, and the African continent at large. The past year has been particularly momentous for South Africa – the government of Jacob Zuma fell the day after the conference ended, and this future of South Africa dominated much of the discussion. The scale and scope of the conference continues to grow. In addition to its academic approach, this year's conference saw several presentations by practitioners – including those who are engaging with issues of peace and security from political and military perspectives.

SACCPS Conference 2013 program

Day 1: Quo Vadis South Africa?

Session 1: Setting the Scene
Opening Remarks: Prof Virgil Hawkins, Osaka University and Professor Heidi Hudson
Dean: Humanities, UFS

• The ANC’ 2017 National Conference: Strategic Perspectives【PDF/1022KB】
  Prof Andre Duvenhage, North-West University
  
  
• The Captured State as a Contending Regime Preference
  Dr. Piet Croucamp, North-West University
  
  
• State Capture, foiling the greatest heist of all time
  The Honourable Natasha Mazzone, DA MP, Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises

Session 2: South Africa: Domestic and Foreign

• The State of the South African National Defence Force【PDF/1226KB】
  Prof Thomas Mandrup, Royal Danish Military Academy and Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA), Stellenbosch University
  
  
• Nationalism, Populism and Polarization: The Role of Civil Society
  Dr. Ina Gouws, Programme on Governance and Political Transformation, UFS
  
  
• Foreign Relations(hips) as a means to an end: A process approach to the themes of justice and restitution in South Africa’s international affairs【PDF/2908KB】
  Bianca Naude, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State, Qwa Qwa campus
  
  
• Determinants of South Africa’s foreign policy strategy in cyberspace【PDF/1160KB】
  Mr. Laurence Caromba, Department of International Studies, Monash University
  
  
• The State of the South African Economy
  Professor Philippe Burger, HoD, Department of Economics & Acting Dean: Economic and Management Sciences, UFS
  
  
• South Africa today: it isn’t fake news! 【PDF/807KB】
  Mr. Roland Henwood, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

Session 3: What future for South Africa?

• Fate of the Nation: 3 Scenarios for the Future of South Africa【PDF/921KB】
  Dr. Jakkie Cilliers, Chairperson of the Board and Head of the African Futures and Innovation at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).

Day 2: Quo Vadis Africa?
Session 1: Setting the Scene

• Perspectives on the Future of Africa【PDF/950KB】
  Dr. Jakkie Cilliers, Chairperson of the Board and Head of the African Futures and Innovation at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

Session 2: Reflections on Peace and Security in Africa

• Why do some peace agreements hold and others do not: Lessons learned from conflict resolution in Africa
  Prof Tim Murithi, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, and Centre for African Studies, UFS
  
  
• Why African Armies Fail?【PDF/4807KB】
  Major-General Eeben Barlow, Chairman of STTEP International
  
  
• Infrastructures for Peace: Where to from here?【PDF/682KB】
  Mr Willem Ellis, Centre for African Studies, UFS

Session 3: On Terrorism and Media Bias

• Negotiating with Al Shabaab: Pitfalls and Opportunities: 【PDF/163KB】
  Dr. Anneli Botha, Department of Political Studies and Governance, UFS
  
  
• The importance of new methods for old problems: Using Critical Discourse Analysis in study terrorism in Africa【PDF/260KB】
  Ms Alta Vermeulen, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
  
  
• Going with the flow? Coverage of world conflicts in the South African media【PDF/255KB】
  Professor Virgil Hawkins, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Japan

Session 4: Gender in Africa

• Gendered (in)securities and memorialization of struggle: Dynamics of memory, space and gender in post-liberation Africa
  Dr. Stephanie Cawood, Acting Director, Centre for Africa Studies, UFS
  
  
• The Power of Prefixes: Exploring the ‘Post’ in Posthuman Security
  Prof. Heidi Hudson, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, UFS
  
  
• Narratives from a South African lesbian archive: Translating lesbian and feminist activism into transnational solidarity
  Dr. Nadine Lake, Centre for Africa Studies, UFS

Closing Remarks: Professor Heidi Hudson, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities